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Action rhythm title Sayonara Wild Hearts, released in 2019, features a strong soundtrack. Over 8,800 Steam reviews show a 97% positive rating. Published by Annapurna Interactive, it offers a unique music-driven experience.
Overview
Sayonara Wild Hearts is a 2019 Action game developed by Simogo and published by Annapurna Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 8,833 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $13. The pairing of developer Simogo with publisher Annapurna Interactive is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 397,000 to 927,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Sayonara Wild Hearts can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,833
Positive
97%
Steam appid
1122720
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0397K to 927K
units (median: 662K)
≈ $2.9M to $6.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$13 | 0 |
| positive_97% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Sayonara Wild Hearts at roughly 397,000 to 927,000 copies, with a median around 662,000, derived from its 8,833 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $7.27Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $7.27 to $12.99, averaging $12.05 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $7.27 on 2026-05-12.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Great SoundtrackRhythmMusicActionCasualBeautifulFemale ProtagonistArcadeColorfulStylizedSingleplayerShortLGBTQ+IndieAtmospheric3DStory RichAdventureAction-AdventureFantasy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Sayonara Wild Hearts sold?
- indielist estimates Sayonara Wild Hearts has sold between 397,485 and 927,465 units (median 662,475), derived from its 8,833 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Sayonara Wild Hearts?
- Sayonara Wild Hearts was developed by Simogo and published by Annapurna Interactive.
- When was Sayonara Wild Hearts released?
- Sayonara Wild Hearts was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Sayonara Wild Hearts have on Steam?
- Sayonara Wild Hearts has 8,833 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Sayonara Wild Hearts within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Simogo's other releases and Annapurna Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Sayonara Wild Hearts sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Sayonara Wild Hearts page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.